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Ugh this is giving me flashbacks to my first boyfriend who decided my saying, “I understand but don’t agree” was me losing the fight and then he’d be a smug asshole about it and decide every point I made was invalid because I’d acknowledged his.
God, what a dick. He sounds insufferable.
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I just generally can’t stand it when people refuse to admit that they understand you point of view. Like. It doesn’t mean you agree, it just means I’ve stated my case deftly. I don’t even need people to agree with me. Unless its social justice or humanitarian issues, but I’ve learned to just tap out if the person is clearly just gonna be gross about it.
Oh totally! There’s nothing more irritating that someone who doesn’t know how to concede a point. Seriously, how hard is it to say “I see where you’re coming from and I understand, I just don’t agree”? It doesn’t mean that you’re admitting defeat or anything like that, just that you get it. But of course there are folks who would prefer to move the goal posts instead when they know you’ve got them.
And ditto on the social justice and humanitarian issues. Sometimes it can be useful to challenge people but there’s no point in wasting breath and time when you know you’re not gonna change their minds.
Like, there’s a huge difference between debating things like tv shows or movies or whatever and having discussions about social justice. Like, when it comes to human rights there really is no debate, just realities that people don’t want to face. Like, it’s one thing to debate the ways to lessen police brutality, for example, but it’s a whole different thing to have to convince a person that police brutality is even an issue in the first place when they don’t want to even admit that it exists.
Oh haha, I read that wroooong lmao! But yeah, I enjoy debate and differing opinions until I feel like people are getting combative. Then I lose all sense of rhetoric and just wanna sock them.
lol. No worries.
I’ve only ever seriously wanted to punch someone during a debate like once. I used to do speech and debate and model UN and stuff like that back in high school (like 6 years ago, holy crap) and there was always this one dude who went to a private school and was in literally everything but he was such a smug asshole. He wasn’t even a nice dude outside of the debate rooms, he was just a jackass.
But yeah if it’s getting too heated there’s a point where everyone should just step back and let it go. Once you cross that line into actually getting pissed off instead of just getting excited and wanting to win there’s no point in continuing.
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1. Your job is WHAT NOW!? I’m so jealous. 2. Your comment about Uranus. YASSS. 3. Fight me anytime. I love heated (respectful) debate, and I’ll even just play devil’s advocate for you too.
Oh man, I wish it was my real job. It’s just a dream job right now. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to actually make it a reality but I would love to be a professor of pop culture studies specializing in online fan communities and the expression of gender and sexuality therein. That would be a freaking dream come true. For now I’ll just continue to make observations, though.
lol. Uranus is the best planet. Everyone things it’s the name but nope. It’s just a cool planet!
Good to know! I’ll hit you up the next time I’m feeling argumentative. I love it when people actually enjoy the debate, you know? Like, as long as it’s respectful and everyone is being calm and reasonable it can be a lot of fun. 🙂
Yesterday I went to buy some yarn and so you know how annoying it is when fucking people put those stupid bullshit “don’t use this, wool is murder” PETA stickers on the label?
First of all, stop defacing stock in someone’s store. You’re not clever or saving the planet or anything. You’re making it hard for customers to shop and see the info they need on the label (yardage, weight, dye lot)… You’re making employees spend hours peeling the damn things off, and in some cases, you’re causing damage to the label and or yarn itself. That means loss to the company, which affects employees who probably make minimum wage, you shit bags. You want to make change happen? Contact corporate, you fuckhead. That’s where decisions are made.
Second of all, wool is not murder. Are you fucking stupid? (Obviously the answer is yes). It’s a fucking haircut for a sheep. They’ve been domesticated so long that if we don’t sheer them, it’s bad. Yes, some sheep don’t live in ideal conditions. Got a problem with that? Going to a yarn store and putting stickers on things isn’t going to change it or the minds of customers. For fuck’s sake, you absolute cockwomble, go to the yarn companies. Make them use wool providers that use humane conditions for their yarn, like A LOT OF YARN COMPANIES DO.
And third of all.
You. You precious, empty-headed little shitnugget. You complete and total sawdust-for-brains.
You put your fucking stickers all over acrylic yarn.
There’s no fucking wool in there. It’s all synthetic fiber. Basically, it’s plastic.
You fucking dumbass.
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you had me at cockwomble
I was tagged by @jemariel! Thanks!
Gender: *intense shrugging* Genderfluid? Bigender? IDK. I wanna be a guy but I like being a lady, too.
Birthday: September 6th
Last movie seen: The last movie I remember watching was Thor: The Dark World but that was a month ago and I’m sure I’ve zoned out on other movies since then.
What do you post/reblog: Supernatural, destiel, defense of darkfic stuff, discussion about fanfic and fandom and all that. I try to keep it light but that’s just not possible for me.
Last thing you Googled: Ghost Pets Sims 4
Favorite blog: I don’t pick favorites. I love all my friends. 🙂
Dream job: I study fandom and write papers on it and a university pays me lots of money to talk to young adults about the culture of fandom and the impact of slash fic.
Dream trip: Cruise!
What would be your first entry in a new diary: Dear Diary, people are being idiots again.
Top 3 things you love about yourself: I have pretty eyes, I’m funny, and I ask a lot of questions.
3 things you wish you knew how to do: To balance things (I’m so all-or-nothing it’s ridiculous), to let things go, and to whistle.
Something you wish you had discovered/ invented first: Aglets. idk
3 qualities you like in a person: Honesty, Compassion, Humor
3 qualities you dislike in a person: Judgmental-ness (that’s not a word. whatever.), Snobbery, Unwillingness to Compromise
Favorite planet: Uranus! Seriously! It’s sideways!
A resolution you make every year: I don’t make resolutions unless they’re complete jokes. One year I made a resolution to not match my socks a single day in the year (and I actually kept it).
Something you’re better at than most people: I have no clue.
Something you’re worse at than most people: I can’t drive stick shift.
Favorite thing about tumblr: It’s a good place to find fandom stuff and make friends who have the same interests that you do.
Least favorite thing about tumblr: Bad information and outdated information spreads really easily. Also, it’s one of the worst platforms to have actual nuanced discussions about things on but people insist on doing it anyway. Oh, and the culture of guilt and shame. (There are a lot of things I don’t like about tumblr.)
Weapon of choice: A sharp tongue and a quick wit.
Something not many people know about you: There’s a lot lol. Uhhhhhhh….. I’m actually super argumentative and I’m always up for a debate (almost always, sometimes I need to sleep). I get kinda jittery after a while if I haven’t had the opportunity to argue with someone about something so I wind up driving my brothers crazy b/c I’ll just start arguing about whatever’s on my mind (pop culture most of the time) and they’re like “dude, I agree with you. I get it!” and I’m like “nooooo! fight me!!!”. I enjoy playing devil’s advocate in these sorts of things, too. But for the most part I try to keep it off tumblr b/c that shit gets out of hand quick and like I said earlier, nuance doesn’t exist.
Favorite means of transport: Someone else drives me everywhere. (I hate driving.)
Favorite story: Watership Down by Richard Adams. I read the blurb on the back and it sounded really interested and then I started reading it and I was like “wait, this is about rabbits?!?!” But it was really a good book and I enjoyed it immensely. It’s kind of… idk if epic is the right word but it does have shades of epic storytelling. I read it last…. six years ago? But I still think about it from time to time.
Chicken or egg: Chicken
Something that always makes you laugh: Anything my brother does. Seriously the kid is hilarious.
What is the strangest thing about you: Pick a thing; I’m not normal by any standard.
You get to switch places with someone for a day, who is it and why: The alternate version of myself that is everything I want to be and has everything I could only dream of. And then I’d find a way to sabotage the reversal process and steal alternate me’s life.
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It’s that time of year again! I am sharing the updated (and I hope bug free) blank spreadsheet to track your words for 2018. We’ll begin with the link, so that those who know how to use it and just want to grab and run can get it.
Writing Tracking Blank Sheet for 2018
This is an Excel spreadsheet shared via Google Drive. Feel free to grab a copy, work with it wherever, modify as you wish. All I ask is if you modify and redistribute it, please credit back to me as the original source. I’ve been really loving seeing some of the modifications people have made, and this year I’ve incorporated a few things that I liked back into my version!
Some screenshots of new features and how to use it are behind a Keep Reading cut, to keep your dashes neat and clean.
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Fucking migraines.
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